A son of the soil,
An educationist, a reformer,
A debater, a humanist,
A radical, a free thinker.
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The whitely,
Long and old,Kaash grassy bloomsLike white and fluffy beardsOf Arvind Krishna MehrotraAre more prominent thanHis surreal verses,The long,Old and flowingWhite beards,Beards ofArvind Krishna Mehrotra,Longer andwhite,But not a sadhu,But a versifier,A poet of the bazaar,Indian bazaar.
In Edward Said’s Orientalism,
Of the Orient,But of the Occident.Even Palestine cannot compromiseWith Israel,What to say it more?
Dark daughter,
And wide,How,HowTo rear you,My love,My daughter?In the worldWhere nobody strivesTo knowWhat it marauds your self,What it hurts your sentimentsNobody cares to,My daughter.
Dronacharya,
Have you,Have you forgottenEklavya,Your Eklavya,Waiting forTo meet,Meet you,Guru Drona,Eklavya,Your Eklavya,Will you,Will you not acceptThe beloved disciple?
Abstract: Little magazines and their little-little editors Little men’s little magazines Poetasters, rhymers, commoners and non-poets as poets and poetesses Poets and poetesses as bluff-masters and mistresses Self-praise is no praise, as goes the adage Poetry not in mutual admiration The small editor a poet and the fellow reviewers and subscribers admiring, even university readers and the meritless poetry the topic discussion and the teacher applying in the reader-responses theory
Those who had not to be poets and poetesses are,All those journal-editors,The little-little men of little-little things,Of trivia and academia.A small poet or a poetess who fails as a poetMakes a breakthrough after editing a journalAnd that very small poet turns into a poet of India fame overnight,Can it be,Is poetry false praise and evaluation?My…
A poetic mind,
A poetic soul.